Smog Menace

Series

Series Name

British Movietone News

Issue

Issue No.

1749

Date Released

10 Dec 1962

Date submitted

6 Dec 1962

Stories in this Issue:

1. 1The Finest Feathers
2. 2Discovery by Chance
3. 3Chinese Circus
4. 4Smog Menace
5. 5Overseas to Sunshine

Story

Story No. within this Issue

4 / 5

Summary

MOVIETONE CARD TITLE: Smog Menace. DESCRIPTION: The smog has brought many businesses to a standstill, but at atmospheric sampling stations, they’ve had a very busy time. They’re measuring the sulphur-dioxide and soot content of the air in Central London. The threat was as grave to health as it was in ‘52 when 4,000 people died in the Great Smog. The amount of soot taken in by one person in a day would cover a threepenny bit. SHOTLIST: Key scene. Zoom in test tube. CU woman. CU test tube bubbling, smog recorded on tape (3 shots). CU smog on paper. CU woman, smog from test tubes onto paper (2 shots). CU smog the size of a threepenny bit.

Keywords

Weather; Environment

Locations

London

Card file number

85615

Credits:

Commentator

Leslie Mitchell

Camera

Ronald E. Collins

Length of story (in feet)

57

Story extras:

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